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[applause] >> thank you sandy. when i came out to california in 1989 to oversee the construction of the library for president nixon, the first person i turned to us sandy plan, and i was 20 at the time when i took over the library. sandy was 30 at the time, so we have grown up together around the library and is so wonderful to be back. i'm glad you mentioned my friend larry elder and mike gallagher. mike's book is going to be tremendous great bestseller so if you have the chance come back and sing mike. mike isn't that are forming in memphis the weekend after next. i'm going to go and see them play in memphis which i think is going to be at the pantages. he is a wonderful speaker. if you have never seen mike, come out to hear him and you mentioned larry elder. larry and i are friends. i like to point out that larry elder, and cho coulter and i are all graduates of the university of michigan law school. different years. larry is older than i am. [laughter] ann was a little bit younger than i am but the three of us g
[applause] >> thank you sandy. when i came out to california in 1989 to oversee the construction of the library for president nixon, the first person i turned to us sandy plan, and i was 20 at the time when i took over the library. sandy was 30 at the time, so we have grown up together around the library and is so wonderful to be back. i'm glad you mentioned my friend larry elder and mike gallagher. mike's book is going to be tremendous great bestseller so if you have the chance come back...
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the reason superstorm sandy cause such damage in the northeast of the united states was not exclusively related to environmental policies and actions taken in the united states of america. .. >> if i can add one more thing, remember the beginning of the united states of america. economy of the this southern states in the northern states is very different. they were very different from each other. even today, the economy is very different. we found a way to deal with that and the regulators are the same is true in europe and china and india. same is the same is true and brazil. this country deals with gaps between the rich and poor, agriculture, and earthen industrialize an evolving in much the same way that we're going to have to on the global stage for a the problem has been solved and can be solved. >> host: good afternoon, we have a caller from new york city. >> caller: hello, i'm so happy you're taking my call. my question is this fiscal cliff that we are approaching. if president obama allows it to happen, what kind of catastrophe are you talking about? i'm kind of concerned? so ne
the reason superstorm sandy cause such damage in the northeast of the united states was not exclusively related to environmental policies and actions taken in the united states of america. .. >> if i can add one more thing, remember the beginning of the united states of america. economy of the this southern states in the northern states is very different. they were very different from each other. even today, the economy is very different. we found a way to deal with that and the...
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intelligence surveillance act exprk the over is a $60 billion relief package for areas affected by hurricane sandy. and negotiations on the fiscal cliff continue and debate on a deal is possible in either the house or the senate once it's announced. >> the senate is running a little bit behind schedule. senators were expected back in for a brief pro forma session about ten minutes ago at noon eastern time. in the meantime, a look ahead to tomorrow morning's "washington journal." a look at the biggest foreign policy events of 2012, our guest is ely lake of news week and the daily beast. then the biggest political stories of 2012. we'll look at that with juan williams. "washington journal" starts every morning at 7 eastern on c-span. >> as we wait for this pro forma session to get under way, some information about programming happening the day after christmas. c-span spoke with two retiring lawmakers, congressman dan burton and senator kent conrad. mr. burton, an indiana republican, served in congress for 30 years, and in the 1990s chaired the house oversight committee. senator conrad, the north dak
intelligence surveillance act exprk the over is a $60 billion relief package for areas affected by hurricane sandy. and negotiations on the fiscal cliff continue and debate on a deal is possible in either the house or the senate once it's announced. >> the senate is running a little bit behind schedule. senators were expected back in for a brief pro forma session about ten minutes ago at noon eastern time. in the meantime, a look ahead to tomorrow morning's "washington journal."...
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the second part of it though is i'm a lawyer as sandy mentioned. we have been practicing law for many many years. by pratt the endangered species law i'm not a trial lawyer. i do some apollo work but it's mostly administrative love of my partners are all trial lawyers and they bring trial lawyer sensibility to our arguments. how many of you are trial lawyers here? i usually have lawyer show of. are there any trial lawyers who? they indeed are not normal people. [laughter] trial lawyers are aggressive, fact-driven, argumentative. they like the confrontation and my colleague, gary belinsky and janet hickson and elizabeth nolte and especially tim cook, they are all tremendous with skills and all her young associate trial lawyers. i began this book i sitting down with gary because gary is among the best trial lawyers in the united states. he was hired by the biggest corporation in the united states to represent a -- their product or service. he has to persuade juries all the time of the correct is that his arguments. i was interested in writing a book,
the second part of it though is i'm a lawyer as sandy mentioned. we have been practicing law for many many years. by pratt the endangered species law i'm not a trial lawyer. i do some apollo work but it's mostly administrative love of my partners are all trial lawyers and they bring trial lawyer sensibility to our arguments. how many of you are trial lawyers here? i usually have lawyer show of. are there any trial lawyers who? they indeed are not normal people. [laughter] trial lawyers are...
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it was not simply a guantÁnamo afforded ready access to sandy i go to cuba, spain second capital in cuba, nor that they could absorb the entire fleet, nor that it offers better protection from tropical storms than port royal, nor finally that it is ideally situated to safeguard british shipping throughout the caribbean. all of which was true. but what put guantÁnamo over the top was its native splendor, it's navigable rivers, rolling hills, fertile plains. and yet from the beginning of the expedition, a fatal disagreement between the navy and the army during the expedition to cuba, despite a surprising absence of spanish troops and open road to santiago from guantÁnamo, the british army never advanced. and after nine days, neither the absence of the enemy of the establishment of a secure camp induced burns army counterpart to move. vernon set off to canvass the local countryside on his own. descending a latter, he boarded a long boat and headed up the guantÁnamo river. his delight at what he found apparently exaggerated eye his fear of losing. i thought it the most beautiful prospect
it was not simply a guantÁnamo afforded ready access to sandy i go to cuba, spain second capital in cuba, nor that they could absorb the entire fleet, nor that it offers better protection from tropical storms than port royal, nor finally that it is ideally situated to safeguard british shipping throughout the caribbean. all of which was true. but what put guantÁnamo over the top was its native splendor, it's navigable rivers, rolling hills, fertile plains. and yet from the beginning of the...
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sandy mentioned to my law firm. we have been practicing law for many, many years. while i practice in endangered species law, not a trial lawyer. some apollo work, but mostly administrative law. my partners are all trial lawyers. they bring trial lawyers sensibilities to arguments. how many of you are trial lawyers? i usually have some show up. any of this? there are different than you and i. they're not normal people. trial lawyers are aggressive, fact driven, argumentative. they like the confrontation across the bar. my colleagues, especially tim cook. they are all tremendously skilled and all our young associates, trial lawyers. i began this book by sitting down with gary because carey is among the best trial lawyers in the united states. he is hired by the biggest corporation in the united states to represent an allegation has been made that their product and service has injured someone. and so he has to persuade juries all the time of the correctness of his arguments. and i was interested in writing a book that would persuade people of the correctness in my ar
sandy mentioned to my law firm. we have been practicing law for many, many years. while i practice in endangered species law, not a trial lawyer. some apollo work, but mostly administrative law. my partners are all trial lawyers. they bring trial lawyers sensibilities to arguments. how many of you are trial lawyers? i usually have some show up. any of this? there are different than you and i. they're not normal people. trial lawyers are aggressive, fact driven, argumentative. they like the...
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. >> sandy, i really welcome this. i think my understanding is that the time of the federalist papers in our constitution, 1787 and so forth, grew out of a lot of studies of the constitution across time and across countries and so forth. so that grew out of serious study of other good constitutions. now, what you're proposing, i think, is this constitutional convention which i find quite interesting, and i think your knowledge of the 51 state constitutions as well as the others you looked at would give you a perspective which would be extremely useful in such a constitutional convention. and so based on everything you've seen and known to date if you could propose three things for a new constitution, the three most important changes to today's constitution, what would those be? >> let me take your word "proposal" quite literally. i mean, there are certain issues that i have very strong views on that at the end of the day might not be all that important like, for example, getting rid of life tenure for members of the un
. >> sandy, i really welcome this. i think my understanding is that the time of the federalist papers in our constitution, 1787 and so forth, grew out of a lot of studies of the constitution across time and across countries and so forth. so that grew out of serious study of other good constitutions. now, what you're proposing, i think, is this constitutional convention which i find quite interesting, and i think your knowledge of the 51 state constitutions as well as the others you looked...
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most of the family and friends for sharecroppers, former slaves, and the sandy red clay see how, they had rejoiced when slavery ended, but did with a thick spring grass here in the summer sun. he might have even remember the chatter about a man who at giving him fair skin and research eclipse, the captain of a careful distance, never claiming publicly. he had been born a slave to a teenage girl to a man he had never known. salinas to birmingham, alabama and what, 1880? that we think of birmingham, alabama today is the one hand, gleason, feeling u.s. steel and ultimately providing material for the mobile industry manufacturing industry in the 20th century history finance summit taking liberty with slavery by another name. the pulitzer prize-winning book of 2009. so birmingham has this really awful distribution that begins right around the time it also shows that. if else to for the civil rights struggle in 1963. but what is he able to do in birmingham and away the challenges that we think about this. >> he did not want to be a farmer. he did not want to be a sharecropper. this is a pla
most of the family and friends for sharecroppers, former slaves, and the sandy red clay see how, they had rejoiced when slavery ended, but did with a thick spring grass here in the summer sun. he might have even remember the chatter about a man who at giving him fair skin and research eclipse, the captain of a careful distance, never claiming publicly. he had been born a slave to a teenage girl to a man he had never known. salinas to birmingham, alabama and what, 1880? that we think of...
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. >> the impact of super storm sandy on telecoms indicators. on "the communicators."
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and as a matter of fact right now in response to hurricane sandy's devastation, we've got a web site up and we are working with partners to raise funds to purchase terrific replacements for libraries and the new york and new jersey area. >> have you moved into the ebook world at all? >> not in a big way, yet. we are encouraging it and do not discourage it. children have not had access to the piece of equipment, so we have been looking at how can we promote that because frankly in addition to wanting children to have books and get them engaged and the book is a great way to do that for many children, i do not want to look back ten years from now and say my goodness we let another digital divide occur. we want to make sure that the children we are serving have the opportunity to learn how to use the book and what it is and what it can mean to them. we know that our friends at facebook are working on that kind of thing and i can't help but think in another year or two that will probably be a project that we are doing together. >> you are working on the books? >> we are working on a digi
and as a matter of fact right now in response to hurricane sandy's devastation, we've got a web site up and we are working with partners to raise funds to purchase terrific replacements for libraries and the new york and new jersey area. >> have you moved into the ebook world at all? >> not in a big way, yet. we are encouraging it and do not discourage it. children have not had access to the piece of equipment, so we have been looking at how can we promote that because frankly in...
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irrepressible sense of confidence, most of him in france for sharecroppers, farmers and who scrambled into sandy, red clay fields. they rejoice in slavery ended, but the promise of freedom had withered like spring grass steered by the summer sun. he might've even remember the chatter about a man who is giving them fair skin in basic that lips, but kept in a careful distance, never claiming publicly for quoting him with legitimacy. its office had been a slave to an enslaved teenage girl and a man whose identity he may have never known. so edolphus mr. birmingham, alabama in 1880. now we think of birmingham, alabama today is beyond one hand and ultimately the wrong materials and the most significant manufacturing industry in this country's 20th century and i'm somewhat taking the pulitzer prize-winning book of 2009. pss it's also of course an iconic for the children's crusade in 1963, but what is he able to do in birmingham and and a way that challenges what we think about this. >> he did not want to be a farmer here and he did not want to be a sharecropper. this was a place that our land was fabr
irrepressible sense of confidence, most of him in france for sharecroppers, farmers and who scrambled into sandy, red clay fields. they rejoice in slavery ended, but the promise of freedom had withered like spring grass steered by the summer sun. he might've even remember the chatter about a man who is giving them fair skin in basic that lips, but kept in a careful distance, never claiming publicly for quoting him with legitimacy. its office had been a slave to an enslaved teenage girl and a...
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. >> sandy, i'm sympathetic to what you say, but like you, i've lived through periods when separation of powers has played a really important role in protecting our system and democracy such as it is, like the joseph mccarthy period and the watergate period, et cetera. and i'm also pessimistic about the prospects for this sort of constitutional convention and all, but in the short run, everybody seems to fear that things are worse now in terms of effective action by congress, for example, in any point any of us can remember anyway. there are a lot of different ideas about why that is. maybe it's the growth of talk radio and television, et cetera. maybe it's having a black elected president. there may be all kind of things at work here, but there are things that could be done pretty easily to improve the productivity of congress. for example, if the senate were to change its rules to limit the filibuster, or at least to prevent filibusters on bringing a bill to the floor, which is an innovation of the republicans basically, or require the filibusters actually be filibusters. today we d
. >> sandy, i'm sympathetic to what you say, but like you, i've lived through periods when separation of powers has played a really important role in protecting our system and democracy such as it is, like the joseph mccarthy period and the watergate period, et cetera. and i'm also pessimistic about the prospects for this sort of constitutional convention and all, but in the short run, everybody seems to fear that things are worse now in terms of effective action by congress, for example,...
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i would have to say sandy these last two weeks reminded me of how important and how intertwined and how fascinating the way in which this infrastructure we have created has sort of built itself up in our cities and on our coasts and it brought me right back to square one in terms of peaking my curiosity about how it all fits together. not just the internet but the power in aviation and all of these large incredibly complicated things that we depend on so much. >> host: "tubes" is the name of the book ,-com,-com ma journey to the center of the internet and andrew blum is the author. this is "the communicators" on c-span. >> according to author mike loughner, the party is over. how the republicans went crazy. democrats became useless in the middle class got shafted. mr. lofgren how did the republicans go crazy? >> while they got crazy when they became kind of an up apocalyptic whole that lives in its own bubble. i think we have seen that in the last election. they simply could not believe the public polls, what they were saying that obama was probably going to win and most democratic sena
i would have to say sandy these last two weeks reminded me of how important and how intertwined and how fascinating the way in which this infrastructure we have created has sort of built itself up in our cities and on our coasts and it brought me right back to square one in terms of peaking my curiosity about how it all fits together. not just the internet but the power in aviation and all of these large incredibly complicated things that we depend on so much. >> host: "tubes"...
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democrats are out of office, and it's the same people who served at the top of the clinton administration; sandy berger, madeleine albright,stone talbot. and then we run into the iraq war. and this time the democrats try to correct the mistakes of the, that they made politically at the time of the gulf war vote to authorize the use of force in iraq. and those, that, um, experience of 2002-2003 gives rise to the obamians, democrats who really didn't, didn't get involved -- weren't working in the executive branch of foreign policy, um, until 2009. um, they really rose to prominence in opposition to bush. they had the experience of the disaster of the iraq war, they also had the experience of the financial crisis of 2008. um, they have a different perspective than i think the, um, classic clinton democrats, um, and who are these people? well, people like dennis mcdone nowg who is now the deputy national security adviser who really has been over the last three years, um, the guy who sees throughout the administration that what obama wants, obama gets. ben rhodes, speak writer, wordsmith for the admi
democrats are out of office, and it's the same people who served at the top of the clinton administration; sandy berger, madeleine albright,stone talbot. and then we run into the iraq war. and this time the democrats try to correct the mistakes of the, that they made politically at the time of the gulf war vote to authorize the use of force in iraq. and those, that, um, experience of 2002-2003 gives rise to the obamians, democrats who really didn't, didn't get involved -- weren't working in the...
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i talked to a number of parents just yesterday, bob and sandy davis in st. louis have been very involved in efforts for adopting children from russia and the ukraine. i talked to a young man this morning, sergei quincy from branson who is 22 who was adopted by the quincys in franson when he was 14, 14, he comes to the united states, doesn't speak any english, starts the ninth grade, learns english, at 22 he's now happily married with a couple of young children, and he's -- he told me, he said that the moment of his adoption was the moment that made his dreams possible. in a bad family situation, institutionalized with his brother and sister in three different orphanages and the moment of his adoption and his brother was adopted by the same family who didn't know about his sister, made this possible. i talked to senator john lamping in missouri who adopted a son who is now 14, who had never gone to school. when he was adopted at eight or nine years old, had never been to school anywhere. i would hope, mr. president, that the senate speaks strongly, that we wo
i talked to a number of parents just yesterday, bob and sandy davis in st. louis have been very involved in efforts for adopting children from russia and the ukraine. i talked to a young man this morning, sergei quincy from branson who is 22 who was adopted by the quincys in franson when he was 14, 14, he comes to the united states, doesn't speak any english, starts the ninth grade, learns english, at 22 he's now happily married with a couple of young children, and he's -- he told me, he said...
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the sandy winston churchill was honored with the literature prize, not the peace prize. the marshall gives him the most unusual nobel lecture, probably the nobel lectures eastlake a nobel lecture. he says that disarmament and demobilization and demilitarization i've been disastrous for his country and further democracies. we were back on our heels before world war ii and we are back at her house again unprepared for korea. he said basically much better link that soldiers like me who have to clean up after people like you and officers like me have to send young men to die because they were properly defended because we were enemies. that is not the kind of thing they're used to hearing and oslo. it seems controversial because even after all he was with the army and he gives the theory, very, very thoughtful into the commonsensical speech. >> host: was controversially say, but he was also a very popular figure. >> guest: when i see controversial, with waiting? i'm in controversial and that is the classes. controversial price, controversial choice on the left among academics
the sandy winston churchill was honored with the literature prize, not the peace prize. the marshall gives him the most unusual nobel lecture, probably the nobel lectures eastlake a nobel lecture. he says that disarmament and demobilization and demilitarization i've been disastrous for his country and further democracies. we were back on our heels before world war ii and we are back at her house again unprepared for korea. he said basically much better link that soldiers like me who have to...
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as a matter of fact, right now, in response to hurricane sandy and the devastation there, we have a website up and we are working with partners to purchase replacements for libraries in the new york and new jersey area. >> carol hampton rasco, have you moved into the e-book world at all? >> we have started exploring it, and we do not discourage it. many of the schools and children we serve have not had access to the piece of equipment. so we have been looking at how can we promote that. because in addition to wanting children to have books and get them engaged in reading, we know that the e-book is a great way to do that. i certainly don't want to look back 10 years from now and say, oh, my goodness, we have another digital divide that occurred. we want to make sure that the children we are serving have the opportunity to learn how to use the book and what it is there and what it can mean to them. we are now working on that kind of thing and that will probably be a project that would bring together. >> jane robinson, are you working on e-books? >> yes, we are working on a digital platform s
as a matter of fact, right now, in response to hurricane sandy and the devastation there, we have a website up and we are working with partners to purchase replacements for libraries in the new york and new jersey area. >> carol hampton rasco, have you moved into the e-book world at all? >> we have started exploring it, and we do not discourage it. many of the schools and children we serve have not had access to the piece of equipment. so we have been looking at how can we promote...
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and also now, given hurricane sandy, those down in new jersey and staten island and in queens and in brooklyn can also, unfortunately, relate to this challenge. what do you do. now, whether we come to the storyline with that kind of connection or not, we've all had disasters in our experience. we've all had those unexpected moments where something happens, and suddenly our life isn't the same as it was a moment before. everything is changed. we're in a new paradigm. and we have to figure out how do we survive. these moments of crisis test us. they test our instincts, our loyalties, our faith in ourselves, our creativity. they test our emotions, and they certainly test our courage. on may 16, 1874, a reservoir dam gave way in western montana. it unleashed an inland tidal wave that was at times 20-40 feet high and 300 feet wide. it roared down a 14-mile valley and swept through the villages of williamsburg, skinnerville, haydenville and the town of north hatchton. to give you a sense of the power of that water is to appreciate the amount of time it took to pass through portions of the
and also now, given hurricane sandy, those down in new jersey and staten island and in queens and in brooklyn can also, unfortunately, relate to this challenge. what do you do. now, whether we come to the storyline with that kind of connection or not, we've all had disasters in our experience. we've all had those unexpected moments where something happens, and suddenly our life isn't the same as it was a moment before. everything is changed. we're in a new paradigm. and we have to figure out...
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, except what he says, so he brought one of his partners in the firm he is a short redhead, sort of sandy haired guy, but john would get furious at him because he didn't do it exactly like he wanted, and he's very come he's one of those precise people. .. >> a. yes. i have it framed. i have to tell you about my house. although police took all of his things. it to a, you know, the only one left. my little son took the album. he took the big ego. he spun and around. he's get it down. it they took all tt. now looks like a museum. ahead of the deal and i haven't done very doctorate of law in 2010 from the city university of new york. i heard it. it allegedly 12 years to get that one. vatican have been no real one and less. my daughter and my youngest grandson when on that trip. there eyes get real big when they get to the airport and this person is standing over. the oldest one with a whip. he just turned 21, it also have of that presented to me from louisville kentucky engraved. they sure going to bat for the love of kentucky. i have a big stick. a huge, huge water provable of my dining room
, except what he says, so he brought one of his partners in the firm he is a short redhead, sort of sandy haired guy, but john would get furious at him because he didn't do it exactly like he wanted, and he's very come he's one of those precise people. .. >> a. yes. i have it framed. i have to tell you about my house. although police took all of his things. it to a, you know, the only one left. my little son took the album. he took the big ego. he spun and around. he's get it down. it...
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so he brought one of the partners in the firm who was a short, red-headed, sandy haired guy. john would get furious at him because he didn't do it exactly like you wanted and he is one of those precise people. he has really been good to me and when my husband died, he was there. he came to the receiving that night. he has always been there for me. he went to washington for the bill signing. that is an interesting story too. we have three books last year. he was in court, and his wife got his assistant to get him a plane ticket from atlanta to washington. her mother lives and -- so she had him flying into bwi and spending the night with her, she called them and said john, there is a 1000-dollar plane ticket waiting for you at the delta county. go over there and you fly up there and you go to that bill signing. he really had a good time. he really enjoyed himself and got to meet a lot of people. it was good, but somebody asked him what he did for clothing. he said he did not have a bag that he stopped at -- to buy a shirt and i guess some underwear. i don't know, i didn't ask.
so he brought one of the partners in the firm who was a short, red-headed, sandy haired guy. john would get furious at him because he didn't do it exactly like you wanted and he is one of those precise people. he has really been good to me and when my husband died, he was there. he came to the receiving that night. he has always been there for me. he went to washington for the bill signing. that is an interesting story too. we have three books last year. he was in court, and his wife got his...
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. >> guest: have they talked to sandy wild lately in terms of just that issue? i mean, i'm joking, but the fact is the guy who led very much for the eliminating the fire walls -- >> host: citi bank? >> guest: exactly. eliminate the fire wall between wall street and banks now says that is a terrible mistake. the argument there's too many regulations, and that's a common one you see among some of the political cognizants, just absolutely no basis for it. it was not regulations, multiple regulations that led to the collapse, but the fact there was little oversight. there was a mind set, a deregulation mind set in the financial services industry that created, in part, the mortgage catastrophe. what we saw in doing the book, spent time in a veteran's center in southwest florida, and everybody knows a lot of the current veterans, afghanistan, iraq, what they've come back to. what was interesting about the center is how many veterans went back to the korean war, vietnam, the gulf war of 15-20 years ago. a lot of the people were on the verge of losing their houses. one
. >> guest: have they talked to sandy wild lately in terms of just that issue? i mean, i'm joking, but the fact is the guy who led very much for the eliminating the fire walls -- >> host: citi bank? >> guest: exactly. eliminate the fire wall between wall street and banks now says that is a terrible mistake. the argument there's too many regulations, and that's a common one you see among some of the political cognizants, just absolutely no basis for it. it was not regulations,...
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. >> guest: had they talked to sandy weill lately in terms of just that issue? i'm joking but the fact is that guy who led very much to eliminate glass-steagall, to a lemonade -- >> host: citibank. >> guest: to eliminate the firewall between wall street and thanks. now they are saying that was a terrible mistake and the whole argument that there are too many regulations and that is commonly what you see among some of the little ones, absolutely no basis for. it wasn't regulations that led to the collapse. at it was the fact that there was very little oversight. there was a whole mindset that the deregulation mindset in the financial services have created in part the whole mortgage catastrophe. one of the things we saw in the writing the book at the veteran center in southwest florida, and everybody knows a lot of the current veterans what they have come back to. what is interesting about this center is how many veterans went back in the korean war, the vietnam and the gulf war 15 or 20 years ago. a lot of these people were on the verge of losing their house. one
. >> guest: had they talked to sandy weill lately in terms of just that issue? i'm joking but the fact is that guy who led very much to eliminate glass-steagall, to a lemonade -- >> host: citibank. >> guest: to eliminate the firewall between wall street and thanks. now they are saying that was a terrible mistake and the whole argument that there are too many regulations and that is commonly what you see among some of the little ones, absolutely no basis for. it wasn't...
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. >> host: they talked to sandy while lyrically and terms of just that issue. and joe can come up with the fact is the guy who led very much to eliminate glass-steagall , exactly to eliminate the firewall between wall street and banks. now we're saying that was a terrible mistake. the whole argument that there are too many regulations and that's very common when you see them. absolutely no basis for it. multiple regulations led to the collapse. it was the fact is very little oversight. there was a whole mindset committee regulation mindset that created an part that home mortgage catastrophe. i mean, one of the things we saw was sometime in the veteran center in southwest florida and everybody knows a lot of the current veterans from afghanistan, iraq, what they've come back to. what was interesting is how many went back to the creative for vietnam, gulf war 15, 20 years ago. a lot of these people were on the verge of this analysis. one was rid of social policy of putting people into houses he should've been into houses. not sure where a bunch of guys, many who
. >> host: they talked to sandy while lyrically and terms of just that issue. and joe can come up with the fact is the guy who led very much to eliminate glass-steagall , exactly to eliminate the firewall between wall street and banks. now we're saying that was a terrible mistake. the whole argument that there are too many regulations and that's very common when you see them. absolutely no basis for it. multiple regulations led to the collapse. it was the fact is very little oversight....
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to keep asking and something that we have to model allows people to get that for example, hurricane sandy 80 people are not happy with what he something like that that inner-city when you are living in a tent. there is something like 74,000 acres of land we are still going dealing with a very urgent and difficult situation in haiti. >> host: where did your book, "so spoke the earth" come from? >> guest: it came from women writers of haitian descent. it is the navigation of patients to tell their stories and these groups of women, the edited this anthology. it is "so spoke the earth: the haiti i knew, the haiti i know, the haiti i want to know." different women talk about this. it is a trilingual anthology in english, french, and creole. it's generational. we talk about the people who were surviving it. we talk about their friends and neighbors. there is an opportunity for people who don't know much about haiti to get to know katie through a variety of women writers wasted. >> host: is creole very different from french? >> guest: creel -- creole is a language of its own. it came from the f
to keep asking and something that we have to model allows people to get that for example, hurricane sandy 80 people are not happy with what he something like that that inner-city when you are living in a tent. there is something like 74,000 acres of land we are still going dealing with a very urgent and difficult situation in haiti. >> host: where did your book, "so spoke the earth" come from? >> guest: it came from women writers of haitian descent. it is the navigation of...